Mordecai Bartley

Mordecai Bartley
Mordecai Bartley
18th Governor of Ohio
	In office; December 3, 1844 – December 12, 1846
Preceded by	Thomas W. Bartley
Succeeded by	William Bebb
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; from Ohio's 14th district
	In office; March 4, 1823 – March 4, 1831
Preceded by	new district
Succeeded by	Eleutheros Cooke
Member of the Ohio Senate; from the Coshocton district
	In office; December 2, 1816 – December 6, 1818 Serving with Abraham Shane; Joseph Wampler
Preceded by	William Gavit; Abraham Shane
Succeeded by	John Spencer; Joseph Wampler
Personal details
Born	December 16, 1783; Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Died	October 10, 1870 (aged 86); Mansfield, Ohio
Resting place	Mansfield Cemetery
Political party	Whig

Mordecai Bartley (December 16, 1783 – October 10, 1870) was a Whig politician from northeastern Ohio. He served as the 18th Governor of Ohio. Bartley succeeded his son, Thomas W. Bartley as governor, one of few instances of this happening in the United States in high offices.

Biography

Bartley was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. After attending the local school in Virginia, he married Elizabeth Welles in 1804 and moved to Jefferson County, Ohio.[1]

Bartley served as a captain, and then an adjutant during the War of 1812. Following his service under General William Henry Harrison in the War, Bartley moved to Richland County, Ohio, near Mansfield.

While farming, he was elected and served one term in the Ohio State Senate from 1816 to 1818. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1822, Bartley served four terms before declining to be renominated in 1830.[2]

Bartley was an Ohio Whig Party Presidential elector in 1836 for William Henry Harrison.[3]

He ran for governor in 1844 as a Whig after David Spangler, the original nominee, declined to run. Bartley served a single term from 1844 to 1846 before retiring again. While he was Governor, Ohio raised forty companies and 7,000 men for the Mexican–American War.[4]

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References

Mordecai Bartley at Ohio History Central
"Ohio Governor Mordecai Bartley". National Governors Association. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
Taylor 1899: 193
Fess, Simeon D., ed. (1937). Ohio, A four volume reference library on the History of a Great State. 4. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. p. 91. OCLC 418516.

External links

Media related to Mordecai Bartley at Wikimedia Commons

United States Congress. "Mordecai Bartley (id: B000210)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
"Bartley, Mordecai" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... 1. State of Ohio. p. 193.

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[1] Mordecai Bartley at Ohio History Central

[2] "Ohio Governor Mordecai Bartley". National Governors Association. Retrieved July 11, 2012.

[3] Taylor 1899: 193

[fess-4] Fess, Simeon D., ed. (1937). Ohio, A four volume reference library on the History of a Great State. 4. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. p. 91. OCLC 418516.